Remember when Google removed from Chrome the 60 lines of code implementing the FTP protocol because it was a security liability?

Binance failed to implement programs to prevent or report suspicious transactions — including those tied to Hamas's Al-Qassam Brigades, Al Qaeda, and ISIS

In order to illustrate the filth that gravitates around crypto, there's no need to conjure these exotic boogeymen, when you have local actors like the president and his buddies. Also, Al Qaeda affiliates are good now, as they used to be in the 80s.

This hurts many subpopulations of minors, ranging from LGBTQ teens who will be isolated from communities that can help them navigate their identities to minors on the autism spectrum who can express themselves better online than they can in face-to-face conversations.

I call bulllshit on this. Children do not have the maturity that is required for unfiltered access to the adult world, let alone for using a service designed around exploiting human fragilities for commercial exploitation. Sensitive kids, if anything, have a much higher chance of getting hurt by either the addictive mechanism of the service itself or by weirdos they can encounter online than the chance of meeting some "community" that can help them better than their parents or a specialist could. They'll have plenty of time for navigating after their brain has formed.

Who knows, these days; it might just happen that the code you push there ends up being used to train an AI that could fire you (if you're American) or kill you (if you are from elsewhere). Not being evil is all good, but those sweet Pentagon contracts...

What is this "modern" web that requires new features, not security updates, every two weeks? Because certainly it's not users.
Nowadays the word "modern" has become a red flag for a company pushing their development or business models over their users' needs or desires.

I can live with that.

An AI agent is totally going to clean his ass when he's no longer able to do it himself.

It's the law that is absurd, though. Italy's "piracy shield" forces all service providers (including DNS and VPN vendors) to block any IP address or domain name that they put on a blacklist, within 30 minutes from publication. Only Italy's equivalent of the MPAA are allowed to add to that list: you can't use the system to protect your own copyrighted works, only the media oligarchs can. There is no appeal procedure if you are unjustly blocked.

Last year "piracy shield" disabled Google Drive in the whole country for a day because someone had shared links to watch football matches on a Google Docs document.

That said, it's not lost on me that Cloudflare expect themselves to be above the law, and that they don't want anyone to rule the internet because they want to be the gatekeepers themselves.

C++ and Rust are very different languages. Rust's safety requires you to use different abstractions and public interfaces compared to C++, even if only to wrap everything into "unsafe" sections. And Win32 APIs are in C, not even C++. This is not going to be a "refactor", but a rewrite, an operation that historically has often gone wrong in software engineering. And it will be done by AI and in a management-imposed hurry...
My prediction: the old pieces of Windows that somehow still work will become just like Microsoft Teams.

You forgot to end with "thank you for your attention to this matter".

Nothing to see here, move on. And I'm not even a Ruby fan.

Hyperloops don't exist and will never exist, because they're infeasible. They're all scams. Stop platforming their proponents.

There seems to be a trend for "modern" websites to be made up of unsearchable, undiscoverable collections of pieces of text with no formatting besides a huge sans-serif font and extremely wide margins. There's no paragraphs and little headings. Most of what you see is generated text, and you struggle to find actual content because navigation elements, such as menus, are rare and have no visual hint about their nature or function. Often, they're generated as well (e.g. "things you might need", "in the spotlight", "featured"). Icons and colors aren't used, and pictures are just meaningless stock images that you have to scroll away.

Usually there's a huge title header that takes up two-thirds of the vertical length of your viewport, and there's no way to enumerate the content of the site, because all you get are vague links ("your municipality", "services for you", "house and environment"). In the end you have to use Google to search for anything, which can land you to an old, unindexed page that is no longer the current one for whatever you were looking for. This is especially true because another thing with modern websites is that URLs tend to be meaningless or short-lived, because sites are either "single page" or served by a CMS that changes every six months.

Finally, the concept of vertical scrolling is broken by useless, unusable tricks such as endless scroll or, for front pages, something fancier that makes the site look like a children's pop-up book (all of this coming from the same people who in the 90s told us that <blink> was a crime against humanity).

Maybe it's because of the "mobile-first" design of modern websites, but I don't think so, because typically the mobile version of said sites is even less functional, with everything that can't be easily implemented as a scrollable sequence of short text sentences being painful to use or just missing.

Companies have been successful in pushing lawmakers to give them privacy law bypasses for AI usage, and of course they will exploit AI everywhere they can for harvesting even more data from the customer.

Plot twist: North Korea deliberately leaked the phone as a trojan horse in order to spy the BBC from the inside.